Brad Technology wins its place at the Élysée Palace

The national jury of the 6th Grande Exposition du Fabriqué en France has named the BRAD soil probe to represent Vaucluse. 104 products, one for each French département, will be on show at the Élysée Palace on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 November 2026, at the close of France's Industry Week.

We designed and tested the BRAD probe in France. We do not sell it on its own: we supply it as part of a precision-agriculture offer that starts from field data. The probe continuously measures soil moisture and temperature, evapotranspiration and light, plot by plot. Together these measurements make precision irrigation possible: neither too much water nor too little, neither too early nor too late. The app returns them to the grower, on a phone. Hey Brad, our voice assistant, answers the grower's questions.

We will present Hey Brad at the Élysée. A grower asks a question out loud and gets an answer built on two sources: the measurements from their own plot, and a library of 800 reference agronomy documents that we are currently curating. We will present it in French; Arabic is the next language in preparation.

The exhibition is free and open to the public with prior registration. Booking will open in the coming weeks on the exhibition website: https://www.entreprises.gouv.fr/la-grande-exposition-du-fabrique-en-france

For 2027 we are preparing village-scale pilots of this offer, 50 plots or more, in Morocco, Ivory Coast and India. We are looking for local distributors, supply-chain partners, institutions and funders.